BIO: Benjamin Carrel WHARTON, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 397-398.
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  BENJAMIN CARREL WHARTON, Mount Union, Huntingdon county, Pa., was 
born in Mifflin county, Pa., January 22, 1841, son of James and Esther 
(Siecrist) Wharton, both natives of that county. James Wharton, a 
farmer, was a son of Samuel Wharton, who came from Cumberland county, 
Pa., to Mifflin county, where he died August 13, 1825. James Wharton 
was justice of the peace for fifteen years; was for many years 
supervisor of the township; and in the Presbyterian church, of which he 
was a member, he was for a long time retained as trustee. His wife, 
like himself, was of German descent, and belonged to a family of early 
settlers of Mifflin county. She was a daughter of Daniel Siecrist. 
Their children are: Martha A., widow of Robert C. Craig; Samuel K.; 
Huldah M.; Daniel S.; Catherine E. (Mrs. Samuel Ewing); Margaret A., 
wife of Dr. Kohler; Benjamin Carrel; Phebe J. (Mrs. Robert S. 
Henderson); David, died in infancy; Sarah E., died in 1847, aged four 
years; Abraham R., died in 1850, at the age of five years; and James 
Monroe, killed in battle at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., in 1864, at 
the age of twenty-six. He was a member of Company K, Forty-ninth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers. Mrs. Wharton died at the age of forty-seven, 
in Mifflin county; her husband survived her for twenty-seven years, 
dying in the same place in 1874, aged eighty-two years, six months and 
seven days.
  Mr. B. C. Wharton attended the common schools of his native county 
until he arrived at his twenty-first year. He continued with his 
father, sharing the labors and profits of the home farm until 1883. 
From this year until 1885, he was in mercantile business, in 
Huntingdon, Pa. He then bought a farm, which he cultivated for four 
years, and then rented it. In 1889, Mr. Wharton removed to Mount Union, 
where, after selling his farm in 1893, he built his present commodious 
residence, and where he has been continuously engaged in business ever 
since. He had filled various township offices. In 1880, in Mifflin 
county, he was elected school director, served for three years, and has 
recently been re-elected; he has also filled the offices of the 
election board a number of times. Mr. Wharton adheres to the Republican 
party.
  Benjamin Carrel Wharton was married, January 18, 1872, to Marian, 
daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Stoneroad) Isenberg. Two of their 
children, Howard and one unnamed, died in infancy; the survivors are: 
James B.; Samuel H.; Grace E.; and H. Mary. Mr. Wharton is a member of 
the Presbyterian church, and has been a ruling elder for the past six 
years.
  Samuel Isenberg, father of Mrs. Wharton, was a native of Huntingdon 
county, and has been a cabinet-maker and farmer. He was twice married; 
by his first wife he had three children: Ann Eliza (Mrs. Joseph Work); 
Susan (Mrs. Sellers Raugh); and George. His second wife was Miss 
Stoneroad; their children are: Louisa (Mrs. Reuben Meyer); Milton W.; 
Marian (Mrs. Wharton); Naomi (Mrs. Jackson L. Grove); Jerome G.; 
Dorothy G. (Mrs. S. C. Postlethwaite); Elizabeth; Alfred H.; Margaret; 
Howard; and Ellen (Mrs. D. B. Swane). Mr. Samuel Isenberg died in 1890; 
Mrs. Isenberg still resides in Huntingdon.